Monthly Archives: May, 1997
MOODY'S INCREASES CBIS DEBT RATING
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service announced May 21 it raised the investment grade ratings on the outstanding senior unsecured debt of Cincinnati Bell Inc. to...
VODAFONE FIELD TRIAL TESTS CDMA-GSM
NEWBURY, U.K.-Vodafone Group plc and Qualcomm Inc. said they will conduct a field trial in the United Kingdom starting the fourth quarter to demonstrate...
CALIF. FACES SPECTRUM SHORTAGE
WASHINGTON-Two California lawmakers, citing lack of cooperation from the Federal Communications Commission and the startling prospect that spectrum legislation pushed by Congress and the...
SOUTHWESTERN BELL LAUNCHES IN TULSA
TULSA, Okla.-Southwestern Bell Wireless launched its 1900 MHz Time Division Multiple Access network in Tulsa, Okla., the first time TDMA has been commercially available...
LAWMAKERS BRING TO FLOOR NEW SECURITIES LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON-Two House lawmakers introduced legislation last week to stem the tide of high-tech class action securities lawsuits that have migrated from federal courts to...
RARITAN OFFICERS USING CDPD TO CATCH SUSPICIOUS DRIVERS
RARITAN TOWNSHIP, N.J.-Police in Raritan Township, N.J., have had increased success in apprehending drivers with suspended licenses or other violations using Bell Atlantic Nynex...
WORLD BRIEFS
German cellular service provider T-Mobil awarded a contract to Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand T-Mobil's Global System for Mobile communications network. Lucent values the...
D-BLOCK LICENSEE PICKS NORTEL UNITS
DALLAS-Conestoga Wireless, winner of four D-, E-and F-block personal communications services licenses in central and eastern Pennsylvania, selected Northern Telecom Ltd. to supply Global...
QUALCOMM GETS NAMING RIGHTS
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. last week dedicated Qualcomm Stadium, which is home to the San Diego Chargers, San Diego Padres and San Diego State University...
NEXTWAVE GRANTED EXTRA TIME TO COMPLY WITH OWNERSHIP RULES
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission gave NextWave Telecom Inc. extra time to reorganize its ownership structure in light of anticipated commission changes in foreign-investment rules...
MOTOROLA, NOKIA TO DEVELOP HANDSET
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. said they will develop a prototype digital handset for NTT DoCoMo in Japan based on wideband Code Division...
MOTOROLA’S LLOYD PREDICTS THAT PAGING WILL SEND A GLOBAL MARKET MESSAGE
After three years in Motorola Inc.'s Information Systems Group and 23 years with the company, Frank Lloyd has returned to paging, his mind set...
DYNACOM TO ACQUIRE PREPAID CELLULAR COMPANY
BELLINGHAM, Wash.-Dynacom Telecommunications Corp. said it executed a letter of intent to purchase Jeffrand Inc., doing business as The Wireless Outlet, Pro Cell Communications...
PROSPECT FOR MORE SPECTRUM FOR LITTLE LEO DATA PROVIDERS DIM
WASHINGTON-The United States is honing preparations to press for additional global mobile satellite spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference this fall in Geneva, but...
MCI LAUNCHES TWO-WAY INTERACTIVE PAGING USING SKYTEL NETWORK
MCI Communications Corp. kicked off networkMCI Interactive Paging two-way service, using the AccessLink pager by Wireless Access Inc. and SkyTel Corp.'s ReFLEX 50 network.The...
AT DEADLINE
PriCellular group to acquire PalmerPrice Communications Corp. reached an agreement to acquire Palmer Wireless Inc. for an aggregate purchase price of $880 million, including...
SBC PLANS TO FORM SWISS COMPETITOR
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. completed an agreement to form a Swiss telecommunications company to compete with Switzerland's Telecom Post, Telephone and Telegraph when the...
NOKIA PICKS CISCO FOR ACCESS SERVER
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Nokia Telecommunications selected Cisco Systems Inc.'s Cisco AS5200 universal access server, which routes digital cellular phone calls directly to data networks and...
UBS UPS STATUS OF SPECTRIAN CORP.
SAN DIEGO-UBS Securities upgraded the status of Spectrian Corp., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., to "buy" from "hold" and set a 12-month price target of...
LUCENT TO DELIVER SWITCH TO CARRIERS
WARREN, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is supplying its GlobeView-2000 asynchronous transfer mode switch to the Communications Authority of Thailand and Indonesia's P.T. Komunikasi...
MATRA MARCONI INKS LEO SPACE CONTRACT
RESTON, Va.-Constellation Communications Inc. selected Matra Marconi Space as prime contractor for the space segment of its low-earth-orbit satellite system. The initial contract is...
INTER-CARRIER, MUNICIPAL COOPERATION NEEDED FOR SMOOTH ZONING
NEWARK, N.J.-It's trade secrets vs. tell all as wireless telecommunications companies try to hide their strategies from competitors while seeking fast buildout approvals from...
ATS ACQUIRES B&E NASSETS FOR $14M
BOCA RATON, Fla.-American Tower Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Radio Systems, acquired the assets of B&E Associates and DB Consultants for $13...
PRODUCTS
Motorola Inc.'s Integrated Software Products division released its Air Apparent software for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT version 1.1. The product is a general purpose,...
VITA AWARDS WINNERS USE CELL PHONES TO HELP OTHERS, THEMSELVES
WASHINGTON-Ed Jose, winner of this year's VITA*award for Crimestopper from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, couldn't be on hand to accept his award last...